As we know, President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he will nominate Andy Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants, the parent company of Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. as his Secretary of Labor and the International Franchise Association (IFA) has undertaken an effort to help him win confirmation. Puzder is a member of the IFA Board of…
Read More »Zealots in the Obama Department of Labor and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) may indeed be looking at the last few weeks of life for their litany of pro-labor and anti-business regulations (the overtime rule, the persuader rule, the expanded joint-employer definition, and others), as it appears CKE Restaurant CEO Andy Puzder is poised…
Read More »Federal Judge Amos Mazzant, presiding over the US District Court for the Eastern District in Sherman, Texas this week granted an emergency, nationwide injunction against the implementation of the new overtime regulation from the Department of Labor. The DOL rule would have more than doubled the salary threshold for payment of overtime (the so-called “white…
Read More »The now-enjoined new overtime regulation may not be the only rule with which the Trump administration takes a different view than Obama officials did. In a video message released on Monday, President-elect Donald Trump said he will “direct the Department of Labor to investigate all abuses of visa programs that undercut the American worker.” It…
Read More »There are currently 26 states (more than half the country) that have enacted right-to-work laws – prohibiting non-union members from being forced to pay union dues against their will – but Kentucky is not one of them. And, with the Kentucky House controlled by pro-union democratic representatives, the votes were not there to enact right-to-work…
Read More »In the context of significant regulatory changes we’ve referenced above as well as others, we’ve mentioned the election of Donald Trump on several occasions. Against that backdrop, this may be a good time to advise you of the Trump Transition team website, through which, you can share any ideas with the transition on how to…
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